So I sat down today to write a blog because I was in a "bloggy" mood. Then I realized I never posted one over christmas! I know I wanted to wait till we got back to post it because we were not at home over the break so I didn't want to tell the world I was not at home. SO.. I am going to do a little holiday re-cap!
SO we were not going to be home for Christmas but I still wanted to have a tree! And I had been looking and looking and the trees here are SO expensive! SO MUCH. And so most people have a small tree that we would put in a kids room haha. But wanted a white tree... and it was very hard for me because christmas is very special to me. And it was already hard being away from my family. Ruan understood this and through his mom they found me a tree. And it was PERFECT. I had been planning my ornaments for months. I had already made my decorations for the house! Made my little tree forrest out of paper cones pain and glitter, well the one with the red bow on tom is made form pieces of plastic cups. :)
I tried to make them things we both love since we started from scratch!
So I made little superman "S" shapes from paper and cardboard and we had a few coca cola ones my mom gave him for christmas last year. And one that my mom had sent with someone who came before christmas! and then of course my little paper ( drawn with pencils) Yoshi's from Super Mario. He is my favorite character. So he was what I made for the tree :) The star is from the game too. I thought it fit well. :)
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Okay, so for christmas break we traveled to the most southern state of Brazil on Christmas eve morning. Here is a map! We live in Curitiba, and we traveled to Porto Alegre. (also what I call "the city of FIRE" it was the hottest place I have ever been to. )
Curitiba is the best city to live in. It is very close to Georgia weather. I mean its bi-polar like Georgia.. like it can get pretty cold here. But not in Rio Grande Do Sul... we if it does get cold its more like *comfortable* outside. And remember not common to have A/C only small fans and such. Some people have it. but not super common.
The reason we went there is Ruan's sister (Carol) and husband (Douglas) and their son (Daniel) live there! It is also where Ruan was born! I had only met them once before, but it was just for a weekend, last year. and this time we were explaining on spending TWO WHOLE WEEKS there. So I was very excited!
SO we arrived Christmas eve day. went swimming! haha and relaxed and hung with his family! ( and pretty much what we did the rest of the two weeks :)
Here is our first picture as a family!
On christmas eve night. Here in Brazil they stay up till midnight ( they have parties like we do for new years, and they open gifts then)
He loves his Uncle
He was happy to have him there! :)
My sister-in-law and I
Ruan was teaching him on his old
lefty guitar that he gave to Douglas
the tiny 5 year old crazy
boy who rides with no training
wheels. he is the size of a three
year old..... crazy!
Just a funny picture I took on one of the
hottest days.
I was using the ipad as a mirror. Because at this point more of his family had come to stay. so there was 11 people in a two bedroom ONE bath apartment. (tiny bathroom) it got kinda crazy. so I had to get creative :)
So we had a great time over new years. went to a water park cause they kicked us out of the apartment pool cause we didn't live there. so the water park was an experience haha it was fun though! And new years we stayed at home and watched the concert on tv. Then we had our own time of worship with just Ruans sisters family and us and his parents. All in portuguese though but i knew most of them. It was a very cool time with his family.
So on January 7th we flew back home. i am sure J.J. was missing us.
I finally got my window seat! On the flight down there I had a window seat with NO window!!!! so mean!
Ready to go back!
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Well this end part 1 of the "LONG OVERDUE" blog. haha :)
Stay tuned for part 2 which includes the newest member f our family! :)
Love, Ruan & Anna <3
